Expel the socalled sedition caucus. Get on the phone, call your congressman and feel free you can lightly threaten them. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Things are moving very quickly at this hour, amidst an intensifying emergency, what is an impairment to democracy in over a century. The house just released its 76page report outlining impeachment for donald trump. Quote, President Trump remains a clear and present danger to the constitution and our democracy. The house must reject this outrageous attempt to overturn the election in this insitement of violence as a sitting president. The President Trump committed a high crime and misdemeanor against the nation by inciting an insurrection at the capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. A few hours ago we got the news that a move to push out donald trump got action from republicans. New york times reporting, quote, senator Mitch Mcconnell has told associates th
We are going to unite together and defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. Harris and within seconds, candidates ripping each other after the primary. Buttigieg stepped up his attacks on Bernie Sanders again, calling him too divisive. Americans about the freedom to make choices for themselves on health care or on any other issue. The politics of my way or the highway is a road to reelecting donald trump. Harris klobuchar took aim at both buttigieg and sanders after her strong showing. We go i dont have that big bank account. I dont have that big name that some of the other people that are in this race im not a newcomer with no political record. But what i do is get things do done. Harris meanwhile, President Trump tweeted this. With the big story be that i got morningafter primary votes than any incumbent president in either history of that great steak and economic an insignificant fact. We will have full directions all this from former White House Pr
World. Im natalie allen. Im George Howell from cnn newsroom. 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. The lawsuits are flying. The u. S. President barely uttered the words National Emergency and the lawyers came out fighting. Members of his own party warned it was a terrible idea. President trump declared a National Emergency days after congress refused his demand for funding. He will face a gauntlet of legal challenges. Cnns jim acosta reports, he may have already sabotaged his own case. Reporter try to take a victory lap after a defeat in congress, President Trump declared a National Emergency to tap into Administration Funds to build a wall. The president may have already undercut his case when he admitted the motivation is to speed things along. I could do the wall over a period of time, i didnt need to do this, but i have to do it faster. I have done a wall for the election. 2020. Reporter more than 1 billion authorized by congress, they are free to secure 8 billion for the wall. The p
The next front in the fight between the trump doj and congress over transparency. Here is barr today. Did the white house see the report before you released your summarizing letter, has the white house seen it since then, have they be briefed on the contents beyond what was in your summarizing letter to the Judiciary Committee . Ive said what im going to say about the report today. Will we have the complete report or are you going to be selective as to what you give members of congress . You mean the unredacted report . Uhhuh. No, the first pass at this is going produce a report that makes the redactions. Jerry nad suggesting if barr does what he is promising and delivers a redacted report to congress in the coming days, he will face a subpoena and a court fight. Congress has need of the entire report including the grand jury material, including all the including everything. And i presume well get the redacted report within a week. When we do so, if we dont get everything, we will issu
Mcconnell had previously voiced concerns about declaring a National Emergency but appeared to have softened on this policy in order to get the president s signature on the Government Spending bill. Were covering this story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. Manu raju, the president was calling republican lawmakers, venting about the spending deal. It obviously put senator mcconnell, the Senate Leader in a tough spot. Walk us through what happened. Republicans were nervous all day long, jake, about whether or not the president would, indeed, sign this legislation. Im told a closed door lunch, they had no idea whether the president was going to sign this. Coming out of the lunch, several republican senators told me they didnt know, they werent going to commit to voting until they knew exactly where the president stood. Mitch mcconnell has opposed a National Emergency declaration for some time. He is worried about the precedent that would set. He was worried that republicans would vot